Thursday, May 31, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 31

Another rule to live by:
Don't treat the sound guy badly.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 30

Job security -
driving beer truck.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 29

It is good to feel her
against me, even if

she cannot stay.

Monday, May 28, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 28

Crane,
great bird,

a wise sky
lifts you.

Sunday, May 27, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS


“So, yes, this
is what you

do – you put
down one word,
another.”

*

“Everywhere
or nowhere -

somewhere
the poem.”

*

“On the
mountain

can you
see the

mountain?”

Saturday, May 26, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS


“Isn't measuring
so exactly

a certain sign of
insanity?”

*

“They come on
when I can't

turn them off.”

*

“Insist on chewed
language. People

your poems. Strike
every third word.

Hope no one's
watching.”

Friday, May 25, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 25

The sun.
Like that.

Brilliance.

Thursday, May 24, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 24

I see rain coming.
We will be blessed.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 23

Not enough fingers -
these many blessings.

Tuesday, May 22, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 22

If it be cranes,
let them speak

and be spoken of.

Monday, May 21, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 21

A great stillness
like the fullness

of cranes in the field.

Sunday, May 20, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS


“Pick
with care

or swing
wildly.

Which
gets you

what?”

*

“Why, I'd
be honored
if you'd
steal some.

Go ahead.
There's more
where they
come from.”

*

“So many.
So much.

Such as
it is,

they are.
Words.”

Saturday, May 19, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS


“Writing these
particulars

into the great
scheme – that's what

poets do.”

*

“Learn it.
Learn to

make it.
Learn to

break it.
Break it.

Make some-
thing of

the break.”

*

"Afraid to fail,
you won't succeed."

Friday, May 18, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 18

How many
birds on the wires?

How many
notes in the melody?

How soon
the great emptiness?

Thursday, May 17, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 17

Bank of clouds
in the distance -

a whole new day.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 16

Heat, as if a mirror
reflects it back distorted.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 15

Corn beyond the line marking
the beginning of the West -

“What's the matter with you people?”

Monday, May 14, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 14

Light laid down
like a soaking rain.

Sunday, May 13, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS


"Not poems,
but raw

notes
for poems."

*

"Words
do what
words do.

Things
do more."

*

"How do you
think of these
things," they asked.

"How do you
not," he said.

Saturday, May 12, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS


"To get there,
stay here."

*

"The wise man
knows enough

is plenty."

*

"The fool knows
all the ways

to nowhere."

Friday, May 11, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 11

Oaken sky breaks to blue,
sun like the grace of God

on the empty fields.

Thursday, May 10, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 10

Wind in the trees like rain
slashing the plains.

Wednesday, May 09, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 9

Headed home, I am
driving into

the lightness of sky.

Tuesday, May 08, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 8

Water-color sky
surprised by rain

breaking through.

Monday, May 07, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 7

Sad fellow -
his Harley won't go,
and rain is coming.

Sunday, May 06, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS


"Sometimes the only
thing I have is

nothing to say."

*

"Take only
what you're
offered.

Need isn't
greedy."

*

"Nothing
is enough

sometimes.

Isn't it
foolish

to want
what you

don't need?"

Saturday, May 05, 2012


THREE from
THE OLD POET SAYS


"Use it or lose
it and sometimes

it doesn't matter
what you do."

*

"Poet - not
a career,

a way of seeing."

*

"Where's the roar
of the crowd when

the poet throws
a perfect game?"

Friday, May 04, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 4

This spring
the screaming

green, all
the screaming

green!



Thursday, May 03, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 3

Fire
this spring,

the woods
leafing.



Wednesday, May 02, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 2

Spring,
like the waking

of cranes.



Tuesday, May 01, 2012


LINES FOR MAY 1

Ah,
the cranes

come dragging
in spring.



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